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Originally Posted by Wyseguy
I was in undergrad and grad school during the 1980's. Being in the D.C. Area, we had many speakers discussing SDI and what the benefits were of it. S.D.I. was an important part of 1980's soviet - U.S. relations. It can even be said that it played an important role in the ultimate end of the Cold War. The Soviet Union was presented with a system and it's technology that they would not be able to meet financially or technologically.
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Yes, the development was the deterrent. But, it never actually worked. Or I should say, I think that is the one that never worked. If it is the anti-ballistic missile system I am thinking of, they tried numerous times over decades to hit a target and misted almost every time.
I may be confusing two systems.
My post was not so much about a specific system, but about posts claiming "facts" about our military readiness. And public knowledge is not "facts" was my point. If someone is actually quoting "facts", that would be a federal offense, since the nukes are all classified top secret. People can try to "glean" information, and can extrapolate and can theorize. But, discussing actual facts around out nukes is off the menu.
And, I may be out of line, but, saying our military will lose in a war against Russia is in my not so humble opinion un-American, especially for a person that can n to possibly have the actual data about military readiness, to make statements like that in what could be a run up to war, seems to be rooting for the other side.
But that is just my opinion.